Kai asked Santa for a camera and Leapster games for Christmas and Santa (with some help from grandma and grandpa Whitney) came through. Santa showed up at Kai's preschool one day and Kai got to put in his request. A few days later was our Church Christmas party where Santa made another appearance. Kai waited patiently in a lengthy line to see him again. When he climbed up on Santa's lap I was close by attempting to quickly seat a horrified Rori also on Santa's lap so I overheard the following:
Santa: What would you like for Christmas this year little boy?
Kai: Well I think you already know, but a camera and leapter games. (I mean he had just told him a few days before but better safe than sorry)
Santa: Have you been nice to your little brother?
Kai: Huh? Um..I saw you at my school.
Santa: That's right.
Anwyay, so the camera is the Fisher Price kind that is made for kids and supposed to be "kid tough". We read the mixed reviews online and weren't sure what we were going to think about it.
He took a ton of pictures in San Diego and HI (like 300+)and we have yet to change the batteries which surprises me. It's a nice size- big enough to not get easily lost but small enough to fit in a bag. The quality has seemed better than we expected after the reviews and keeping in mind that it is a Fisher Price camera. And it is so easy to download his photos on to our computer.
The best part has been how much he loves it. He loves taking pictures and finding this to shoot. I love that it is a creative way for him to express himself and develop a love for photography. Plus it is fun to see what he deems picture worthy and have some special keepsakes from him at this age. We'll see if it holds up, but for San Diego and HI it was awesome to have.
Here are some of our favorite shots from Kai's Eyes.
San Diego:
*Not shown here themes of note included several individual shots of other Christmas gifts. Like all of the ones in the 1st picture 1 by one, several shots of various tv shows, and what appears to be several shots of the newspaper being read by grandparents.
Hawaii:
*Not shown here themes of note included several shots of our rental car backseat (door handles, window buttons etc.) and lots of angles and distances of self portraits.
5 comments:
Those are great pictures! I completly agree it's great for them to be able to express what they deem photograph-worthy and capture parts of your life you may not remember later without his pictures. Like buckling Rori in a stroller (cute picture).
Our kids just steal our little camera on occasion and I had to laugh at your post because they too take pictures of tv shows and random toys on the floor. And themselves. And food. So cute. What a great present!
And I'm so happy you were in Hawaii. So fun.
Ahh I love it, how sweet!!! and yeah for HI :)
mac.comKai's photos are so cute! His perspective is very insightful. Love the one of Grandpa and Rori dancing!
Katelyn got that camera for Christmas, too. It has already taken a beating:)
WOW! what a great holiday! you guys have been all over the map! i bet you're loving recovering during january!
christmas looked spectacular. HAWAII! oh, and charlie wanted a camera for christmas. santa might bring it next year, though.
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